Co 419 (Middle-Late Hellenistic hemiobol of Ptolemy III from Corinth with countermark) [permalink] [show fewer links]
Type
Inventoried Coin
Not after (date)
-222
Not before (date)
-243
Comment
RW, JLR: Middle-denomination bronze coins of Ptolemy III occur not uncommonly at sites in the northastern Peloponnese. C. C. Lorber (CPtolEmpI.2) has identified this hemiobol type as an issue of Corinth.
Comment
RW: For Ptolemaic host coin, commonest issues in region for era and design are Ptolemy III (e.g., Svoronos19041908, 1000, p. 155). Countermark may indicate “assarion“ or “Argos“.
Wear: P/aG (coin), aF (countermark). Extensive pitting; incipient pale blue and green bronze disease; deep crack through coin from edge at obverse axis 5.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, p. 101, Appendix 3 (R. Hohlfelder marked as “Tessera“).
